Shakespeare's Globe
A Resource Guide
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Books Video Websites

Books

  • Adams, John Cranford. The Globe Playhouse: Its Design and Equipment. 2nd ed.
      New York: Barnes & Noble, 1961.
      Call Number: 792AD18G1961
      Available in English Stacks, Main Stacks and Undergraduate Stacks
      (First edition available only in Main Stacks at call number 792AD18G)

  • Beckerman, Bernard. Shakespeare at the Globe, 1599-1609.
      New York: Macmillan, 1962.
      Call Number: 822.33 GB38
      Available in English Stacks; Undergraduate Stacks

  • Berry, Herbert. Shakespeare's Playhouses.
      New York: AMS, 1987.
      Call Number: 792.09421 B459S
      Available in English Stacks; Undergraduate Stacks

  • The Development of Shakespeare's Theater.
      AMS Studies in the Renaissance; no.24. New York: AMS, 1992.
      Call Number: 792.95 D492
      Available in English Stacks

  • Hubbard, George. On the Site of the Globe Playhouse of Shakespeare, Lying to the North of Maiden Lane, Bankside, Southwark . . .
      Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1923.
      Call Number: Q.822.33 GH86
      Available in Rare Books Room (noncirculating)

  • Gurr, Andrew. Rebuilding Shakespeare's Globe.
      London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989.
      Call Number: 725.8220942 G967R
      Available in English Stacks

  • Hodges, C. Walter. The Globe Restored; A Study of the Elizabethan Theatre. 1st American ed.
      New York: Coward-McCann, 1954.
      Call Number: 792.H66G1954
      Available in English Stacks; Undergraduate Stacks
      (Reprint available in Undergraduate Stacks 792.H66G1973,
      and first edition available in the Main Stacks 792.H66G)

  • Hotson, John Leslie. Shakespeare's Wooden O.
      London, 1959.
      Call Number: 792.09H79S
      Available in Main Stacks; Undergraduate Stacks

  • Kiernan, Pauline. Staging Shakespeare at the New Globe.
      New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
      Call Number: 792.9509421K546s
      Available in English Stacks

  • Mulryne, J.R. and Margaret Shewring (Ed.). Shakespeare's Globe Rebuilt.
      Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 1997.
      Call Number: 792.0942 SH152
      Available in Main Stacks

  • Orrell, J. The Quest for Shakespeare's Globe.
      Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983.
      Call Number: 792.0942164OR7Q
      Available in English Stacks

  • Shakespeare's First Globe Theatre: The Harvard Theatre Collection Model Designed by C. Walter Hodges.
      Cambridge, Mass.: The Collection, 1980.
      Call Number: 725.8220228 SH15
      Available in Main Stacks

  • Shakespeare Survey, v.52 (1999).
      Entire volume dedicated to articles on "Shakespeare and the Globe."
      Call Number: 822.33DSH152
      Available in English Library Periodicals Room

  • Smith, Irwin. Shakespeare's Globe Playhouse: A Modern Reconstruction in Text and Scale Drawings.
      New York: Scribner, 1956.
      Call Number: 725.82SM5S
      Available in English Stacks, Main Stacks, and Undergraduate Stacks

  • Thomson, Peter. Shakespeare's Theatre. 2nd ed.
      London: Routledge, 1992.
      Call Number: 792.094212 T385S1992
      Available in English Stacks
      (First edition also available in English Stacks: 792.094212 T385S)

  • Wilson, Jean. The Archaeology of Shakespeare: the Material Legacy of Shakespeare's Theatre.
      Stroud: A. Sutton, 1995.
      Call Number: 792.09420903W694A
      Available in English Stacks

    • On Videotape:

  • Shakespeare and the Globe.
      Videorecording. Prod. University of California, Berkeley.
      Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities, 1988.
      Call Number: VIDREC822.33
      Available in Undergraduate Media Center

  • Shakespeare's Globe Restored: Learning by Performance.
      Venice, CA: TMW Media Group, 1997[?]
      Call Number: VIDREC792SH15 (comes with study guide)
      Available in Undergraduate Media Center

    • On the Web:

  • Shakespeare Globe Center (USA).
      This site maintained at the University of Maryland is devoted to the new Globe Theatre's architecture, including photos, design details, reconstruction milestones, and information on educational events at the theatre.

  • Shakespeare's Globe Research Database.
      University of Reading, Renaissance Texts Research Centre.

    • Guide Compiled by
    Mary Stettner
    Webpage development by
    Ryan Roberts
    With Additions and Revisions by
    Diana King
    Kerrie Huizinga

    Last Updated: 18 November 2002

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